The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-05
Important Change on the Nj. s. c
Local and State Notes.


On Wednesday passenger rates to New York,
Boston and other Eastern points will be restored
to tariff.
Receiver McNulta, of the Wabash, will dis
burse $450.000 in interest on the first mortgage
bonds on the LIST of January.
The c.. l., St L. & C. road earned in Novem-
Der $2l7 123 II; increase over earnings CORE
spending week 1856. 1904 "a.
Several car loads of material for the new ca
BILE street railway were brought in the L.,
y. A. & c. road from Milwaukee and St. Paul
Saturday.
A. NJ. Tucker. who the LIST of December
retired from the superin tendency of the Sus-
quehanna division of the Erie road, will enter
banking business in Elkhart. Ind.
There were transferred over the Belt road for
the week ending Dec g. 1910 cars, against H..
gines last week handled ] ,532 carloads of live
stock.
The latter part of this week trains Nos 8 and
on the Terre Haute g. Indianapolis road will
come out of the shops equipped with the Gray
don device for heating passenger coaches by
steam from the locomotive.
The Northern Pacific earnings for November
show the largest increase in the history of the
road. although the gross earnings for October
were q little larger than for November. The
total increase over November last year is 1902
542
The Waveland Independent says: 1.-THE
Indiana Midland road is in heap of trouble
They promised to pay their men on the 18th of
last month but failed TO do so, and on Wednes-
day nearly all the men on the construction work
quit"
In the territory covered by the Central Traffic
Association there are eighty-two roads, and but
thirty-seven of the number are members of the
association It is not surprising that the chair-
man of the association is kept busy bring
about harmonious relations between the ins and
the outs.
To-day general reduction OF expenses goes
into effect most of the Western lines. Con-
struction trains taken off, the section forces
reduced to two men and foreman, dropping from
two to four each section bridge forces
are reduced and there is wedding out of all
ments.
The Louisville, Evansville & St Louis road is
beginning TO develop large coal traffic. The
fall has been very favorable for the road,
there has been large demand for Indiana Goals.
Most or their product goes to New Albany. Jet
Eersonville and Louisville. The Ohio Falls
works have been furnished of late with coal
from mines on this road
Within the last thirty days experiments have
been made on the Pennsylvania lines with
automatic whistle, the object OF which is to give
the signal at grade crossings, whether the engi-
neer is the alert not The device is simple,
consisting OF lever connecting with the whistle.
and then extending down TO within an inch of
the track At point six hundred feet from
the crossing projection is so placed that 1t
strikes against the lever and starts the whistle
j. W. Terrence, one of the projectors of the At
lantic g. Mississippi railway, was in Crawfords-
vile on Friday last in the interest of the pro-
posed enterprise, and he told the citizens there
that he had visited most of the prominent points
on the proposed line, including Fort Wayne and
St Louis the proposed termin OF the road, and
everywhere the project Was received Win en-